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Monday, May 8, 2017

Liberals Stole Their Education

It saddens
me to read the many errors in grammar on Facebook (and other sites as well.) So
many words are misspelled, the wrong words are used. And it is mostly adults
doing the writing.

What happened to the ability to correctly spell the
words that make up our language ? Is it a simple case of being in a hurry and not caring
about proper usage and spelling? I suspect some words are misspelled because
the writer doesn’t know the correct spelling. It’s true, sometimes they don’t care,
and that’s a shame. What happens when the writer is asked to write an
intelligent letter (a resume) or a report for school. College professors are
appalled at the lack of ability to spell and use words properly of students "graduating" from high School. I don’t think
this is entirely the writer’s fault. I think poor spellers had a lot of help
becoming poor spellers. It may have happened like this:

My pal Red
State Louie and I were indulging in adult beverages at a patio table at the
Golden Gulp and Glug Cocktail Joint in Washington, D.C. We were quietly
discussing the political conventions, as were many around us. Politics was in
the air!

We were marveling
at how easily liberals accept HRC’s excuses for losing the election she was
supposed to have won by a landslide. Suddenly, down the street came our barely
bearable buddy Pud Politico, a real honest-to-gosh liberal hack. Pud wore a jokers-style
hat and vest, checkerboard pants that he thought were the coolest thing
around.He was strumming his lips as he
rode in on a skate board, mumbling “Hillary’s Great, Hillary’s Great.” He kicked
the board up into his hand and dismounted, a stupid grin stretching his
features into a “Gotcha” look. He tucked the board under his arm and flopped
down in a chair at our table.

“That
Hillary’s great, ain’t she?” he asked no one in particular. “Wow, what a woman,
huh, Newshawk?”

“Are we
talking about the same person, Pud?”

“Yeah, the woman
who should be president, you know the one.”

“Yep, the
one who looks and speaks like she wakes up with a bad taste in her mouth every
morning.”

“She’d be a
great president. Did you hear her concession speech?Hillary would have made life better for
everybody.”

“Pud,” said Red State Louie,
“all her campaign rhetoric was the same stuff the Democrats have been promising
in every election for at least the past 50 years. More jobs, lower taxes,
better healthcare, fix the education system, national security. Yadda, yadda.
But there’s been no change.”

“Yep. Yep,
that’s right. Democrats are good at promising …” Pud’s eyes were bugging out
now as his excitement grew.

“And doing nothing.
Liberals have been promising black people a leg up for years – but have never
delivered.”

“Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah!,” sputtered Pud. “Why do they keep voting for Democrats then, huh?”
This last in the same childish manner of a fourth-grader. We were surprised he
didn’t stick his tongue out at us.

“I dunno.
It’s obvious the libs have no plans to help blacks – or anyone else, for that
matter. If they were they could have made huge changes for the better in the
past eight years. Instead, they’ve made everything – and I mean everything –
much worse,” I said.

“Yep,”
drawled Red State, “healthcare’s a disaster. The economy, no matter how many
times they lie about how good it is, is in the tank, and our education system
went from being among the best in the world to pretty durn bad.”

“Mister, oh,
mister,” called a young woman sitting at the next table over. “Aren’t you the
Newshawk?”

“Yes.”

“Would you
mind answering a question for me.”

“If I can.”

“In Mrs.
Clinton’s speech she spoke briefly about an incident that happened in
Philadelphia many years ago. It sounded very important, but I don’t remember
hearing about in school. It started with an R, I believe.”

“An
important historical event that started with an R?”

“How about
the Renaissance?” suggested Red State.

“No, that
wasn’t it,” replied the girl.

“Thur was a
French explorer named sumthing-or-other Radisson who trapped fur in Canada at
one time,” mused Pud. “They named a string of hotels after him – big ones,
too,” wiping his nose on his sleeve.

“How about
retarded,” I suggested, nodding toward Politico.

“Reconstruction,
perhaps,” said Red State.

“Or
redistribution. We’ve seen quite a bit if that lately.”

“No, it had
a V in it. Rev, something, I think.”

“Oh,” says
Red State perking up. “You mean the Revolution. The American Revolution.”

The girl,
looking sad, asked, “Why didn’t I learn about the American Revolution in
school?”

“The
education establishment, owned and operated by democrats, elected to deprive
grade school and high school students an awareness of their heritage. It’s much
easier to turn young minds against their country when they have no knowledge of
it or pride in it,” I explained.

“To bad you
and others your age couldn’t sue government agencies involved in stealing your
education, but they would never allow it.”

The sad
young woman looked around as if lost, then asked, “What can I do?”

About Me

I've been writing this stuff off and on for thirty years. Newshawk is well-known locally - he's trying to stretch out. For those of you who really like Newshawk and his cronies, there's a book The Newshawk Reports: The Writings of a Politically Incorrect Newsbird. The book is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. A Kindle book is also available on Amazon.